Tag Archives: James Rowland

There are some familiar faces returning to the VAULT Festival this year, and The Reviews Hub’s Richard Maguire was able to catch up with James Rowland as he adds the finishing touches to his new play Space Opera. Pleased to be back? "Oh yes," affirms James, "it’s handy as I live in London!"; but joking aside he also sees his ...

Writer: James Rowland Director: Daniel Goldman Reviewer: Andrea Allen Tom. Hell-raising, ludicrous, life of the party, loved by all, diagnosed with heart cancer and dies within three months at the age of 25. As fiction it’s horrendous, as truth it’s even worse. It’ll come as a bit of a surprise that it’s the basis of probably the most celebratory, joyful ...

Writer: James Rowland Music: James Rowland Lyrics: James Rowland Director: Daniel Goldman Reviewer: Emily Hall James Rowland’s debut solo show from Fringe 2016 is now on tour after his successful run of his new show, 100 Different Words for Love, this summer. Team Viking is the heartrending story of his friend’s death and spectacular goodbye. After watching The Vikings at ...

Reviewer: Emily Hall James Rowland doesn’t need any frills to make you laugh and cry. A Hundred Different Words for Love is storytelling at its finest: beautiful, simple, funny, and utterly engaging. Listen to Rowland tell a “completely fictional” story about a girl, poignantly and hilariously revealing all of the small details and complex emotions that relationships live and die ...

Writer: Yevgeny Schwartz Adapted by: Daniel Goldman Reviewer: Maryam Philpott   Dragons have a pretty bad reputation; they breath fire, eat damsels and terrorise villagers. All in all, they are the baddies of fairy tales justly defeated by the brave and valiant knight who rescues everyone and marries said damsel. But what happens after that? Removing the dragon leaves a ...

Director: Jessica Edwards Reviewer: Paul Couch   It’s a strange beast, Vaudeville. It officially declined with the introduction of cinema in the 1930s. There was no great battle of cultures, however, it was a simply a case that public appetites changed and the silver screen got a foothold onto the music hall stage, slowly sweeping aside the live performers. In ...

Writers: Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Katie Lyons Director: Mimi Poskitt Reviewer: Ian Foster [rating:5] Billed as “a theatrical adventure in Covent Garden”, the details of which we’re urged to keep secret so that future participants can experience it unspoiled, Once Upon A Christmas is Look Left Look Right’s contribution to this year’s festive fare, and what an appetising treat it ...